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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 8 May 2000 18:29:17 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jeff Stembel writes:
> None of these diseases have infected, and will kill, a quarter of the people
> in many African countries. Why is almost everyone ignoring this fact? These
> people are the reason we should try to find a cure. I doubt many of them have
I'm not ignoring it. I just don't (personally) think they figure into my
own "how should the government that is funded by MY tax dollars spend my
money" equation, at least not more prominently than those "in need" in the US.
Which, of course, will probably spark another pointless debate about how the
government should take from those who have to help those who don't...
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) I am apalled by this heartless attitude. How can you care so little for people who are suffering, just because they don't live in your country? The countries suffering the hardest can't afford to do medical research, and many of them are (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) So what you are saying is that you don't care that 250,000(1) people around the world get infected by HIV/AIDS every month? What makes you think that what goes on in other less developed parts of the world will not affect the USA? This is a (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) None of these diseases have infected, and will kill, a quarter of the people in many African countries. Why is almost everyone ignoring this fact? These people are the reason we should try to find a cure. I doubt many of them have access to (...) (25 years ago, 8-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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